Record Collectors, Rejoice

April 2018

FAYETTEVILLE

One year after closing the Rock Shop, Shawn Adkins is back at it with Back-A-Round Records. Located above Carrillo Bail Bonds in downtown Fayetteville, Back-A-Round shares space with a recording studio and a tattoo parlor. It specializes in pre-digital media – CD’s, cassettes, vinyl, 8-tracks, and players for all the above. There is also a wide selection of vintage concert gear like T-shirts. Adkins estimated he had 10,000 items in the store on opening day, all of which had come from his personal collection. What walls weren’t stacked with CDs were covered in collages of posters, and two-level tables held records and rock magazines in homemade wooden bins and bankers’ boxes. At that, Adkins said he had only begun to move his collection into the store. Opening was delayed about a month because he had underestimated the time it would take to price all the items. While Adkins is only 37 years old, he says of the business, “This is who I am. This is what I am.”